An archival resource of the pre-1960 Ontario Great Lakes North Shore fish stocks and commercial fishing history, including Lakes Erie, Superior and Huron, and Georgian Bay, with emphasis on Lake Superior. Consisting of published and unpublished manuscripts and hand-written notes of archival records and oral interviews with local residents.

These records are largely unannotated and unsearchable, but freely available. Their original copies have been deposited with the Archives of Ontario.